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Monday
morning a large crowd turned out for the ribbon-cut and grand opening of the new Aldi
grocery
store on the city's west side. Above, Aldi
Vice President Heather Moore cheers as store
manager Susie Spain snips the ribbon.

This
image from
video
provided by
Dani Hart
shows what
appears to
be a
transformer
exploding in
lower
Manhattan as
seen from a
building
rooftop in
the Navy
Yard in
Brooklyn
during
Sandy's
arrival in
New York
City. Much
of New York
was plunged
into
darkness
Monday by a superstorm
that
overflowed
the city's
historic
waterfront,
flooded the
financial
district and
subway
tunnels, and
cut power to
nearly a
million
people.

Karen
Hargis caught this shot of a ring around the
moon Monday night. This is commonly called
a lunar halo and is seen on a clear night when
high, thin clouds containing millions of ice
crystals are present. Halos are
caused by both refraction, or splitting of
light, and also by reflection, or glints of
light from these ice crystals.

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Streets are flooded under the
Manhattan Bridge in the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, N.Y., on Monday. Sandy continued on its path Monday, as the storm
forced the shutdown of mass transit, schools and financial
markets, sending coastal residents fleeing and threatening a
dangerous mix of high winds and soaking rain.